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They say you can’t go home again. Lily Evans never left.
Three years after James Potter walked out of Godric’s Hollow – and out of her life – Lily has carved out a quiet rhythm for herself in the very house where her heart once broke. And she’s not about to let him ruin that.
But when James returns for his mother’s sixty-fifth birthday, a few years older, shoulders broader, and still infuriatingly charming, the walls Lily’s built around her carefully controlled world begin to crack once more. He’s here, and he’s looking at her like he still remembers every stolen kiss, every whispered promise made in the heat of that endless summer.
Lily, however, isn’t that girl anymore. She’s not naïve. She’s not breakable. And she certainly isn’t his.
But some songs don’t stop playing just because you turn the volume down. Especially when you’re right there where he left you.